عنوان

Resistance under communist China :

(Number (ISBN

3030141489

(Number (ISBN

9783030141486

Erroneous ISBN

3030141470

Erroneous ISBN

9783030141479

Title Proper

Resistance under communist China :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

religious protesters, advocates and opportunists /

First Statement of Responsibility

Ray Wang.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cham, Switzerland :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

Series Title

Human rights interventions

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- Facilitating activism in a strong authoritarian state -- China's religious affairs policy -- United front work and religious affairs institutions -- A tale of four cities : transnational Christian activism in the heartland -- Buddha versus Jesus : the transnationalism of traditional religions -- Go beyond religion and China -- Conclusion.

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Text of Note

This book examines religious activism - Christianity, Buddhism, and Taoism - in China, a powerful atheist state that provides one of the hardest challenges to existing methods of transnational activism. The author focuses on mechanisms used by three kinds of actors: protesters, advocates and opportunists, and uses regional, inter-faith, and international comparisons to understand why some foreign advocates can enter China and engage in illegal aid and missions to empower local activists, while the same groups cannot conduct the same activities in another geographically, economically and politically similar location. The stories in this book demonstrate a more inclusive and bottom-up approach of transnational activism; they challenge the conventional spiral theory paradigm of human rights literature and the narrow views about GONGOs in civil society literature. This new knowledge helps to sustain a more optimistic view and offers an alternative way of promoting human rights in China and countries with similar authoritarian environments.

International Standard Book Number

9783030141479

Religion and politics-- China.

Religion and politics.

RELIGION-- Christian Life-- Social Issues.

RELIGION-- Christianity-- General.

China.

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REL-- 012110

REL-- 070000

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Wang, Ray, (Political scientist)

Date of Transaction

20200823083452.0

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[Book]

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